| Author | Message | ||
     kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 996 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randys comment today "We could not be into house music" got me thinking. Do any of us actually like what could loosley be described as dance music? I mean anything that does not conform to the guitar bass drums format of rock n roll, so that discounts stuff like Chic and 70s disco, I'm talking electronic based music from the 90s onward. I love The Chemical Brothers, The Prodigy, Daft Punk, Underworld, and some Bassment Jaxx, mainly their singles | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 737 Registered: 04-2005 |
I like most of the '90s stuff you mention, Kevin, but in limited doses. And while I'm not much of a fan of rapping itself, I do like the music made by the hip-hop DJ types like DJ Shadow, DJ Spooky, Amon Tobin, etc., plus LCD Soundsystem and other DFA things. I like stuff like Saint Etienne sometimes too. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 999 Registered: 05-2005 |
LCD Soundsystem are great Kurt, I would actually rate them above the other bands I mentioned above. The Rapture too, their new album just gets better every time I listen to it. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 694 Registered: 05-2005 |
I like: Underworld, Chemicals, Basement Jaxx, Leftfield, LCD Soundsystem, Orbital, DJ Shadow (though he was very odd indeed when I interviewed him), Stardust's incredible one-off single Music Sounds Better With You, and a few more I can't think of now. I don't like: most anything else lumped in with 'dance' music. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 950 Registered: 03-2006 |
Holy shit! It's about to blow...everybody duck, Kev's about to hit 1000! I have no expertise or, honestly, much interest in that kind of music. I have purchased things in the genre that have momentarily enthralled but it just doesn't somehow pull me back for repeated listening... That said, there are a couple of artists that I like, though I'm sure they're unhip for reasons that completely elude my tin dance music ears. They are: Fatboy Slim - like his sense of fun and inherent humor in his stuff...if that wasn't enough, the bizarre, truly out there video for Weapon of Choice, featuring the terpsichorean talents of one Christopher Walken, made me a huge fan... Moby - I know we all heard the Play album a million times and got desperately sick of it, but I thought it was great, at least for a while there... And where does Portishead fit in on that spectrum? They're obviously more trip-hoppy, but I count it as electronica of sorts, anyway. I think their records are great. DJ Shadow's pretty cool, too, though, judging from the samples I've heard and critical reaction, his new album bites the big one... Oh, and I had a question for the "thousandaire": What do ya know, Kevin, about solo albums by: Mark E. Smith Jarvis Cocker Saw them mentioned on blogs and was curious.. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 823 Registered: 05-2005 |
Don't know what Dance is anymore or if it exists. If its electronic and has a groove, be it old or new then I adore, Kraftwerk, George Clinton, lightly better than Bill!, Warp label has some good groups, Chic, Beck, Massive Attack, Off the wall, Jacko, Boards of Canada, Paul Haig solo stuff... | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 442 Registered: 08-2004 |
The Jarvis Cocker one is genuine. When it will show up I couldn't say. As for House music: Leftfield Fluke Unkle Underworld Fire Island Hypnotone Sheer Taft D.O.P. (Dance Only Productions) Chemical Bros. pre Noel Gallagher assoc. (a bridge too far) Inner City S'Express The Grid St. Etienne Sabres Of Paradise Soundclash Republic Love Corporation The Orb X'press 2 & Ballistic Bros. Also solo work & many remixes by: Marshall Jefferson Andy Weatherall Steve Silk Hurley Terry Farley Justin Robertson (Lionrock) Danny Rampling Red Jerry Rollo Franki Knuckles ... and many many more. A lot of the best house tunes are one-offs such as Gat Decor's Passion, Last Rhythm, Andronicus' Make You Whole. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 672 Registered: 03-2005 |
The only dance music for me: The Fall But I do make huge apologies for presumptuously sweeping everyone else into my remark about house music. My personal background has created a stimulus response loop with most forms of dance music, and particularly the variants of house, where the music begins playing and I start fidgeting, checking the time on my mobile, and then sink into that familiar old feeling that I'm Vincent Price in "The Last Man on Earth." |